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Panoramic View of Fountain City, Buffalo County, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background.
Photograph

Steamer "E. Rutledge" in Beef Slough

Date: 1885
Description: View from shoreline of the sternwheel steamer "E. Rutledge," owned by Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann's Rock Island Lumber Company, picking up a raft of logs at Be...
Photograph

Alma on Mississippi River

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of the city and the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Photograph was taken after 1902 when the Buffalo County Training School...
Photograph

Aerial View of Mississippi River

Date: 1907
Description: Aerial view of the Mississippi River with log rafts.
Photograph

Beef Slough Near Alma

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Description: Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance.
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Returning Stranded Logs to Main Channel

Date: 1887
Description: Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w...

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